Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities: The British Trade Corporation, 1917-1926

This book is the first comprehensive history of the British Trade Corporation, which was constituted under a Royal Charter on 21st April 1917. Its charter was meant to last for sixty years, but in 1926, after a turbulent existence of only nine years, it was amalgamated with the Anglo-Austrian Bank, and absorbed into the Anglo-International Bank.

The corporation together with its two main subsidiaries, the Levant Company and the National Bank of Turkey, conducted business not only in Britai...